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Gift Article: Has Anyone Noticed That Trump Is Really Old?
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I'm genuinely curious what will happen to the GQP when trump dies, no matter what the reason is.
There's lots of talk about how someone worse would step in and take his place, but I can't help but notice that every "replacement" that has been put forward (like Desantis) is made fun of and rejected by the rightoids.
There are people now who have made "trump supporter" their personality. Those are the people who still vote for him, those are the people all the other conservative weirdos are trying to court for votes. So what happens when he dies?
I don't know, but I guarantee you that the QAnon die hards will refuse to ever believe he's dead. Even if they're still around 50 years from now.
I think they'll believe it, but I think you'll have to work really hard to convince them it was natural causes.
he will be simultaneously alive and murdered. that's what makes it so compelling.
Like now, he is simultaneously the secret sitting president and Biden is doing a terrible job.
good times.
I wonder if they will throw him in a wheelbarrow and cart him into the Rotunda to lie in a state like the fat orange fucking carrot log that he is.
Maybe one of his sons would take over? It's hard to imagine the MAGA crew moving on. Even people Trump explicitly endorses don't always seem to get their full support...
Eh, they'll probably just call the obituary 'fake news' and try to elect his corpse into office.
Isn't that what the Reagan years were all about? Weekend at Ronnie's.
That right there is the issue. There are of course two ways that the former president could leave this world - suddenly, or over a period of time. Does he spend two weeks slowly getting worse, giving The Apparatus time to make plans, or does he fall over dead one night facedown in his chicky nuggies?
Either way the "supporters" will get mad and loud and threaten violence but... I'm not as worried about that as I used to be. I live in a deep red state that went 85%-90% to trump in 2020. I know many of the people who support him. Remember that middle-aged couple in 2020 that were waving guns around in front of their mcmansion to protect themselves from "protesters" that were nowhere near them? That's a pretty typical template. If there were actual people in the area doing actual harm they would be hiding inside behind locked doors.
Nobody is going to rise up when he dies. They'll scream and cry and blame gay people, and they will continue to do so until the Next Thing distracts them.
I vote chicky nuggies.